Saxony
Saxony is a federal state in the east of Germany. It contains the two largest and most important cities in eastern Germany other than Berlin: Leipzig and Dresden.Tap on the map to travel |
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Popular Destinations
Dresden
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Dresden is the capital of Saxony. It's often referred to locally as Elbflorenz, or "Florence on the…
Leipzig
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Leipzig is the largest city in the German federal state of Saxony, with a population of approximately 600,000.
Chemnitz
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Chemnitz is a city in southwestern Saxony, with around 250 000 inhabitants the third-largest city in the state, after Dresden and Leipzig.
Destinations
Saxon Elbland
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The Saxon Elbland is a region in the central part of Saxony.
Saxon Ore Mountains
The Saxon Ore Mountains, called Erzgebirge in German or Krušné hory in Czech, is a mountain range in the south of Saxony in Germany.Upper Lusatia
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Upper Lusatia is a geographic and historic region that is mostly located in modern-day land of Saxony in Germany.
Leipzig Lowlands-Central Hills
Leipzig Lowlands is a plain in Saxony, Germany. It is bordered in the south and east by the Central Saxon Hills.Saxon Switzerland
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Saxon Switzerland is a national park in Saxony, Germany, so named after its picturesque upland scenery.
Vogtland
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Vogtland is a region in southwestern Saxony, bordering Thuringia, Upper Franconia and West Bohemia.
Saxony
- Type: State with 4,190,000 residents
- Description: state in Germany
- Neighbors: Bavaria, Brandenburg, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Lubuskie, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia
- Categories: federated state of Germany and locality
- Location: Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude of center
50.9296° or 50° 55' 47" northLongitude of center
13.4585° or 13° 27' 31" eastPopulation
4,190,000Elevation
342 metres (1,122 feet)Abbreviation
SNOpenStreetMap ID
node 473831430OpenStreetMap Feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
2842566Wikidata ID
Q1202Saxony Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afar: Saksoniya
- Afrikaans: Sakse
- Albanian: Saksonia
- Amharic: ዛክስን
- Arabic: Sachsen
- Arabic: زاكسن
- Arabic: ساخسين
- Arabic: ساكسن
- Arabic: ساكسونيا
- Arabic: سكسونيا
- Arabic: صاقس
- Arabic: صَاقِسُ
- Arabic: ولاية ساكسونيا
- Arabic: ولاية سكسونيا
- Aragonese: Saxonia
- Armenian: Սաքսոնիա
- Asturian: Saxonia
- Aymara: Sachsen suyu
- Azerbaijani: Saksoniya
- Balinese: Saxony
- Bashkir: Саксония
- Basque: Saxonia
- Bavarian: Saggsn
- Belarusian: Саксонія
- Bengali: জাখসেন
- Bosnian: Saksonija
- Breton: Saks
- Bulgarian: Саксония
- Catalan: Saxònia
- Cebuano: Saxony
- Central Kurdish: ساکسۆنیا
- Chechen: Маьрша пачхьалкх Саксони
- Chechen: Саксони
- Chinese: Sachsen
- Chinese: 萨克森
- Chinese: 萨克森州
- Chinese: 萨克森自由州
- Chinese: 薩克森
- Chinese: 薩克森州
- Chinese: 薩克森自由州
- Chinese: 薩克遜
- Chuvash: Саксони
- Cornish: Sachsen
- Corsican: Sassonia
- Crimean Tatar: Saksoniya
- Croatian: Freistaat Sachsen
- Croatian: Saska
- Croatian: Slobodna Država Saska
- Czech: Freistaat Sachsen
- Czech: Sasko
- Danish: Sachsen
- Dimli (individual language): Saksonya
- Dutch: Freistaat Sachsen
- Dutch: Saksen
- Egyptian Arabic: ساكسونيا
- English: DE-SN
- English: Free State of Saxony
- English: Freistaat Sachsen
- English: Sachsen
- English: Sakska
- English: Swobodny stat Sakska
- Esperanto: Saksio
- Estonian: Saksimaa
- Finnish: Sachsen
- Finnish: Saksi
- French: Freistaat Sachsen
- French: République de Saxe
- French: Saxe
- French: la Saxe
- French: État libre de Saxe
- Friulian: Sassonie
- Galician: Saxonia - Sachsen
- Galician: Saxonia
- Georgian: საქსონია
- German: DE-SN
- German: Freistaat Sachsen
- German: SN
- German: Sachsen
- German: Swobodny stat Sakska
- Greek: Σαξονία
- Greek: Σαξωνία
- Guarani: Sahoña
- Gujarati: સેક્સોની
- Hakka Chinese: Saxony
- Hausa: Saxony
- Hebrew: סקסוניה
- Hindi: सैक्सोनी
- Hungarian: Freistaat Sachsen
- Hungarian: Sachsen
- Hungarian: Szászország
- Icelandic: Saxland
- Ido: Saxonia
- Indonesian: Negara Bebas Saxonia
- Indonesian: Saxonia
- Interlingua: Saxonia
- Interlingue: Saxonia
- Irish: An tSacsain
- Italian: Freistaat Sachsen
- Italian: Sassonia
- Japanese: ザクセン州
- Javanese: Sachsen
- Kannada: ಸ್ಯಾಕ್ಸೋನಿ
- Kara-Kalpak: DE-SN
- Kara-Kalpak: Sachsen
- Kara-Kalpak: Sakska
- Kara-Kalpak: Saksoniya
- Kara-Kalpak: Saksoniya qalası
- Kara-Kalpak: Saxoniya
- Kara-Kalpak: Zaxsen
- Kazakh: Саксония еркін мемлекеті
- Kirghiz: Саксония
- Kongo: Sachsen
- Korean: 작센 자유주
- Korean: 작센 주
- Korean: 작센주
- Kurdish: Saksonya
- Kölsch: Saxe
- Ladin: Sachsen
- Ladino: Sajonia
- Latin: Saxonia
- Latvian: Saksija
- Ligurian: Sassonia
- Limburgan: Sakse
- Lithuanian: Saksonija
- Lombard: Sasonia
- Low German: Saksen
- Low German: Sassen
- Lower Sorbian: Sakska
- Luxembourgish: Sachsen
- Macedonian: Саксонија
- Malay: Sachsen
- Malayalam: സാക്സണി
- Manx: Sachsen
- Marathi: जाक्सन
- Mazanderani: زاکسن
- Min Dong Chinese: Sachsen
- Min Nan Chinese: Sachsen
- Mongolian: Саксон
- Neapolitan: Sassonia
- Nepali: जाक्सन
- Nepali: स्याक्सोनी
- Northern Frisian: Saksen
- Northern Sami: Sachsen
- Norwegian: Sachsen
- Norwegian Bokmål: Sachsen
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Sachsen
- Novial: Saxonia
- Occitan (post 1500): Saxònia
- Ossetian: Саксони
- Pampanga: Saxony
- Panjabi: ਜ਼ਾਕਸਨ
- Papiamento: Sachsen
- Persian: زاکسن
- Pfaelzisch: Sachsen
- Pfaelzisch: Saksä
- Piemontese: Sassònia
- Polish: Freistaat Sachsen
- Polish: Saksonia
- Portuguese: Freistaat Sachsen
- Portuguese: Saxónia
- Portuguese: Saxônia
- Portuguese: estado-livre da Saxónia
- Portuguese: estado da Saxónia
- Pushto: زاخسن
- Quechua: Sachsen
- Romanian: Saxonia
- Romansh: Saxonia
- Russia Buriat: Саксони
- Russian: Саксония
- Russian: Свободное государство Саксония
- Sardinian: Sassònia
- Saterfriesisch: Saksen
- Scots: Saxony
- Scottish Gaelic: Sagsainn
- Serbian: Саксонија
- Serbo-Croatian: Sachsen
- Serbo-Croatian: Saksonija
- Serbo-Croatian: Saxe
- Silesian: Saksůńijo
- Sindhi: سئڪسني
- Sinhala: සැක්සොනි
- Slovak: Sasko
- Slovenian: Sachsen
- Slovenian: Saška
- Slovenian: Svobodna dežela Saška
- South Azerbaijani: زاکسن
- Spanish: Freistaat Sachsen
- Spanish: Sachsen
- Spanish: Sajonia
- Swahili: Saksonia
- Swedish: Sachsen
- Swiss German: Freistaat Sachse
- Swiss German: Freistaat Sachsen
- Tagalog: Sahonya
- Tajik: Саксония
- Tamil: சாக்சனி
- Tamil: சாக்ஸ்சனி
- Tamil: சாஸோனி
- Tatar: Ирекле дәүләт Саксония
- Tatar: Саксония ирекле дәүләте
- Telugu: సాక్సోనీ
- Thai: รัฐซัคเซิน
- Tosk Albanian: Sachsen
- Turkish: Saksonya
- Ukrainian: Freistaat Sachsen
- Ukrainian: Вільна земля Саксонія
- Ukrainian: Саксонія
- Upper Sorbian: Sakska
- Upper Sorbian: Swobodny Stat Sakska
- Urdu: زاکسن
- Uzbek: Saksoniya
- Venetian: Sassonia
- Venetian: Sasònia
- Vietnamese: Sachsen
- Vietnamese: Saxony
- Vlaams: Saksen
- Volapük: Saxän
- Waray (Philippines): Sachsen
- Welsh: Sachsen
- Welsh: Sacsoni
- Western Armenian: Սաքսոնիա
- Western Frisian: Saksen
- Western Panjabi: سیکسنی
- Wu Chinese: 萨克森自由州
- Yiddish: סאקסאניע
- Yoruba: Saxony
- Yue Chinese: 薩克遜
- DED
- Land Sachsen
- Sasògna
- זאקסן
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Saxony. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.